This afternoon, I found a great escape from the office and Union Square with Buckminster Fuller writings, and a radical assessment of the Haight Ashbury Human Be-In. The Mechanics' Institute was founded in 1854 for adult technical education. It was a visionary attempt to create a post Gold Rush employment for miners. As a frontier town, it became the first library before 1879, and before the Carnegie endowments for seven other city libraries from 1899. And it's still in the same location on Post St.